Chapter 1277: Devourer Black Ant!
The Silver Specter burst through the sea of stars and crazily charged forward.
The entire s.h.i.+p was shuddering from the effort. It must be understood that the Silver Specter came from the Annihilators, and it was made from a supremely tough metal. It had once rammed into and destroyed an Inverse wars.h.i.+p while being completely unscathed, but this s.h.i.+p of heaven-defying toughness was shaking under the propulsion of Xia Fei’s spirit energy, even showing signs of disintegration! This was just how shocking the speed was!
Two thousand standard units in only one minute!
Xia Fei liberally poured two thousand units of energy into the Dark Gem Spirit-gathering Tower, causing this crystal to s.h.i.+ne like a black star, powerful energy pulsing through the command deck of the Silver Specter.
“This is too dangerous! Even if you want to make the Silver Specter faster, there’s no need to use so much energy!” Radix said in terror. Even the Dark Gem Spirit-gathering Tower had its limits. If they went past its designed limits and exceeded the energy it could take, it would explode to catastrophic results, and the chain reaction caused by an explosion within the Silver Specter as it traveled at high speeds was simply unthinkable.
“I’ll say it again: Stick to your job! Don’t worry about mine!” Xia Fei’s eyes erupted with cold light as he spoke seriously.
This state again! The state where he was ready to risk it all against the enemy!
The cold and calculating Xia Fei would always become absolutely insane when he was facing danger! Radix had already experienced this many times, and there was no doubt that this firm believer of price theory had made up his mind to take on the two Annihilator wars.h.i.+ps and the experts aboard them all by himself, buying time for Xia Guanghai and the others.
The distance between the three s.h.i.+ps rapidly shrank, prow approaching prow like two wrangling bulls. Only the side that did not fear death would win, and if neither side feared death, they would embrace each other to death!
It was a ramrod-straight trajectory, neither Xia Fei nor the Dark Spiritualists wavering!
“Fifteen seconds!” Radix warned Xia Fei. Standing at the deck window of the Silver Specter, he could clearly see the two wars.h.i.+ps on the other side, their silver prows thrusting toward them like blades.
“Ten seconds!” Radix shouted again.
“Seven seconds! The wars.h.i.+ps on the other side are starting to decelerate and turn around! They’re not willing to collide with us!”
“Lock on and ram them to death!”
Xia Fei’s orders were very clear, but there were now only five seconds left until impact!
*Rumble!*
Finally, two Annihilator wars.h.i.+ps crashed into each other, the darkness of s.p.a.ce illuminated by a giant fireball, as if a star had suddenly gone nova. The energy pulse carried with it scorching sparks, which scattered through the universe.
It was only one exchange, but the hyperspeed wars.h.i.+p Silver Specter had been destroyed! So tragic!
As the flames spread, the other wars.h.i.+p turned around and headed back to the battlefield. Those on the s.h.i.+p did not dare to believe their eyes. Xia Fei had really done it! What sort of madman was capable of doing such a thing?!
What difference was there between trading a s.h.i.+p for a s.h.i.+p and a life for a life?!
The other wars.h.i.+p stopped at some distance from the collision and used its radar to see if there were any survivors amid the devastation.
At this moment, a dark streak flew out of the flames!
It shot toward the wars.h.i.+p like a black comet!
It was the Dark Gem Spirit-gathering Tower! The legacy soul cannon made by Blueblood Spiritualists!
Behind the black comet was a slender figure, emerging from the flames at astonis.h.i.+ng speed! His body was covered in a black shroud: the Six Waters of Terror Genesis!
After absorbing the evil spirit, Xia Fei had basic control of Immemorial Mystical Armament Terror Genesis. Making Terror Genesis attack others was still very difficult, but having it protect him was no problem!
Other people might be unable to survive in such scorching temperatures, but the protection of Terror Genesis ensured Xia Fei’s survival!
As he flew out of the sea of fire, Terror Genesis gradually retreated, revealing Xia Fei’s red-hot body, from which steam was rising. This was the water vapor created from excess heat.
It turned out that Xia Fei had used his speed to escape the Silver Specter with the Dark Gem Spirit-gathering Tower in the last few seconds! While the Silver Specter was carried along by its inertia into the collision with the opposing s.h.i.+p, Xia Fei had not been on board!
This was not trading a life for a life at all! This was Xia Fei’s tactic! Still, it was rather extreme, and it was very terrifying to witness!
*Rumble!*
The powerful soul cannon of the Blueblood Clan, the Dark Gem Spirit-gathering Tower, received two thousand-some more units of spirit from Xia Fei, unleas.h.i.+ng a shot with a force no less than that of the collision that had taken place just a few moments ago! This shot landed right on the remaining wars.h.i.+p! Another conflagration erupted in the sea of stars!
In just a few minutes, three Annihilator wars.h.i.+ps had been destroyed!
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In the distance, next to that astonis.h.i.+ng soul array, which had five hundred soul cores, Nan Shazi made a slight nod. “No need to keep guessing. That must be the young man called Xia Fei. This method is just as crazy as when he disbanded the ancient Unrestricted Spirit Sect!”
Shu Yuhe grunted. “Him again! How did he manage to find this place? That kid is like our mortal foe or like a mad dog, constantly nipping at our heels!”
Nan Shazi laughed, a profound look in his eyes as he said seriously, “In all things, you have to look past the surface to see the truth. He first put on a suicidal att.i.tude, ramming into and destroying Pakstre’s wars.h.i.+p. Bei Canying thought Xia Fei was dead, so he stopped his wars.h.i.+p to search the area. At this moment, Xia Fei suddenly came out and used his soul cannon to attack Bei Cangying. A wars.h.i.+p moving at high speeds is very hard to hit with a soul cannon, but once it stops moving, it’s nothing more than a big target!
“Xia Fei is truly a good schemer! He’s rather like me in my old days. To tell the truth, while I have been called Alpha’s number-one demonic genius in the last few years and never have encountered my match, if we don’t consider combat strength, on a tactical level, Xia Fei is on par with me!”
Shu Yuhe was taken aback and frowned. Nan Shazi’s evaluation of Xia Fei seemed a little too high. The common people feared Nan Shazi not merely because of his strength but also because of his incredible knack for scheming and ruthlessness! In these aspects, Xia Fei really was like Nan Shazi, making the latter feel as if he had finally found a worthy adversary.
“Alas, in the end, old ginger is still hotter. Teacher, how could Xia Fei compare to you in schemes? Pakstre and Bei Cangying took such big losses because of Xia Fei, so they must now loathe him. It won’t be long before he gets killed by their combined might!” Shu Yuhe said resentfully. It seemed like while the two wars.h.i.+ps had been destroyed, the people in them were still alive!
It had been such a terrifying explosion, and even Xia Fei had required Terror Genesis and Fiend Scar’s a.s.sistance to survive. Did these Dark Spiritualists also have the ability to withstand this terrifying explosion?!
Nan Shazi smiled and muttered, “Xia Fei is still too young. He has no idea of those methods we, Dark Spiritualists, used to sweep through the universe. An explosion? It’s a trick that may kill ordinary people but is entirely useless against Dark Spiritualists!”
Someone suddenly shouted his name and said, “Get ready! The third round of energy transfer begins now!”
Nan Shazi hastily turned around to face the body of that dragon beast in the soul array. One second later, thirteen Evil Shadow Dragoons and Nan Shazi unleashed their power, pouring the energy in their brain regions into the Water Dragon Roar’s body!
*Rumble!*
The eternal darkness of s.p.a.ce was once more illuminated with a light akin to that of a nova!
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“A third round! They’ve poured in three million units of energy now, yet the soul array still hasn’t activated!” Radix, who was riding the fiendish blade Nirvana next to Xia Fei, exclaimed this in shock.
Not even three million units of energy could activate the soul array?! What was going to happen when this array actually activated!
Xia Fei swallowed. Looking away from the soul array, he said, “There’s definitely something weird about it, but we have a bigger problem to deal with.”
“What’s it?” Radix asked.
“There are survivors,” Xia Fei replied.
Radix went pale in shock. Someone had survived that fierce explosion?! Did they have something like Terror Genesis protecting them, too?
*Papapa!*
Xia Fei’s words had barely been out of his mouth when someone began to clap. The hands were infused with spirit energy, and each time they came together, they unleashed a powerful wave of energy.
*Whoos.h.!.+*
This shocked Furball and Little Goldie, and both had begun to look around while perched on Xia Fei’s shoulders.
Five human figures emerged from the flames. Two people had survived from the first wars.h.i.+p, while three had survived from the second. The two s.h.i.+ps had exploded in different areas, and so these five just so happened to surround Xia Fei.
These five were all cloaked in a hazy black substance, like ghost fire. Xia Fei could tell that this was a kind of dark energy, similar to that energy barrier Furball used when he was in danger.
“You’re not dead?!” Xia Fei raised an eyebrow and asked.
“What a joke! Killing us isn’t that easy! Don’t you know that those of the Dark Spiritualist lineage are all energy absorption masters? When a Dark Spiritualist reaches Peak Founder tier, we can not only use energy to protect ourselves but also absorb external impacts! That’s what it means to be a Dark Spiritualist! Devourer Black Ants!” Pakstre said loudly.
Xia Fei looked closely and saw that the black layer over these five surviving Dark Spiritualists seemed to be moving. It was rapidly consuming the surrounding flames, as if they were encased in a large number of ants!
The Dark Spiritualists had radiated this energy to block that enormous explosion!
Five people, five peak Dark Spiritualists ─ Pakstre, Bei Cangying, Sadid, Qin Qing, and Gu Bei; all of them were famous experts of the Alpha Universe! Xia Fei was in trouble!
“Origin of Heaven!”
*Bang!*
Xia Fei’s eyes flashed with brilliant lights, which scanned the five peak Dark Spiritualists before dimming.
“Ocular Cognition?! What did you see?” Bei Cangying chuckled.
Xia Fei spread his arms apart and shook his head helplessly. It seemed like he had not seen anything.
However, at that moment, Xia Fei disappeared, charging at Qin Qing at more thirty million meters per second!
“Don’t even think about tricking me! If you really had such an ability, you would’ve used it at Spirit Mountain! It’s just a spatial skill that transfers energy! You just talked it up into some divine ability!” Xia Fei said viciously.
Xia Fei grabbed Nirvana and chopped it down!
This same move had once taken down a Dragoon!